Meijer
About Meijer, Inc. is a privately owned American supercenter retailer headquartered at 2929 Walker Avenue NW, Walker (Grand Rapids), Michigan 49544 — the Fred Meijer Corporate Office Building on the Meijer Corporate Campus — in Walker, a suburb immediately northwest of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Meijer was founded in 1934 in Greenville, Michigan by Hendrik Meijer — who opened a grocery store during the Great Depression — and is credited as the inventor of the modern one-stop supercenter format, predating Walmart Supercenter by decades. The company’s growth into a multi-billion dollar Midwest retail powerhouse was largely engineered by Hendrik’s son Fred Meijer (December 7, 1919 – November 25, 2011), who expanded the chain from a small grocery store into the dominant